Topics of Crypto World

This week’s recap highlights a fragile market environment, shaped by cooling macro indicators and uneven risk appetite. While Bitcoin and Ethereum traded within a tight range, most large-cap altcoins underperformed, signaling continued caution across the market. In contrast, pockets of strength emerged in segments tied to emerging narratives, including AI-aligned protocols and infrastructure-focused tokens. The report also presents a clear overview of key venture financing activity, ecosystem progress, and major protocol updates, providing a comprehensive snapshot of the ongoing developments across the Web3 landscape.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the USD1 stablecoin, launched by World Liberty Financial, revealing its distinctive approach across dimensions such as political endorsement, compliance framework, product mechanisms, and ecosystem expansion. By systematically comparing it with mainstream stablecoins like USDT, USDC, DAI, and FDUSD, this article explores how USD1 represents a new direction for the "nationalized digital dollar" paradigm, as well as the trust, liquidity, and regulatory challenges it faces.

Gate Research: On December 8, the crypto market remained in a low-volatility recovery phase. BTC traded sideways between $90,000 and $91,700 after a sharp V-shaped rebound, while ETH entered a similar consolidation phase, with short-term moving averages forming a minor death cross, indicating continued dependence on BTC’s trend. Exchange token GThovered within the $10.1–$10.3 range, with three moving averages closely aligned — a sign that the market is in a balance phase before a directional move.

Gate Research: On December 8, over the past 24 hours, the crypto market remained in a consolidation phase. BTC entered sideways trading after a sharp V-shaped rebound, with short-term moving averages forming a minor death cross, signaling that the price has entered a correction stage. ETH moved in tandem with BTC, showing a high degree of correlation. Altcoins showed clear divergence — large-cap tokens rose modestly with the broader market, while mid- and small-cap projects became selectively active on narrative and news-driven catalysts. The Fear & Greed Index stood at 20, reflecting continued cautious sentiment. On the macro front, U.S. stocks edged higher, and gold prices traded in a narrow range. In market highlights, Strategy admitted for the first time that it may sell BTC under extreme conditions, drawing widespread attention; Base’s launch of the SOL-Base Bridge sparked controversy within the Solana community; and the Monad mainnet’s on-chain activity fell short of expectations, with DEX trading volum

Meme Go is a high-performance Meme trading and chain-scanning tool launched by Gate Web3, empowering users to precisely capture token launches and trading opportunities through millisecond-level full-chain scanning, an intelligent trading engine, and customized analytics.

According to Gate Ventures, its 2026 outlook identifies five emerging frontiers expected to shape the next phase of industry development.

This article examines major investments in Pyth Network, Hxro, SynFutures, zkPass, and other projects, revealing a forward-thinking strategy focused on liquidity infrastructure, data solutions, and compliance identity protocols. It showcases a practical approach for traditional institutions undergoing crypto transformation.

The article uses Arcium as a core case study to illustrate how Privacy 2.0 breaks through the limitations of traditional privacy tools, offering richer privacy computing capabilities and collaborative scenarios. It also introduces emerging applications based on this technology, such as the Umbra private pool, private prediction markets, and the confidential SPL standard.

The article details how digital wallets are becoming the new-generation digital identity passes, offering strong trend insights and practical reference value.

The article analyzes the likelihood of MSCI removal, the maximum passive selling pressure of $2.8 billion, the zero debt maturities before 2027, and the $1.4 billion cash buffer, debunking the doomsday rumors about MSTR being forced to sell Bitcoin. It also provides quantitative evidence that the impact on the stock price has already been priced in.

LambdaClass founder Fede unveiled a bold roadmap that includes a 100-fold Gas Limit increase, a shift to RISC-V architecture, and a Lean Ethereum post-quantum solution. With its strong technical foundation and rallying spirit, this roadmap offers meaningful guidance for developers and ecosystem stakeholders.

After the institutionalization of the cryptocurrency market, Bitcoin can hardly reproduce 20-fold wealth explosions. Retail investors are turning to strategies such as DCA (Dollar-Cost Averaging), phased position building, airdrop farming, and learning InfoFi tactics, in order to avoid the rollercoaster of meme coins and the pitfalls of short-termism.

The article explores the century-long confrontation between the synthetic monetary system controlled by financiers and the scarcity engine of Bitcoin championed by sovereigntists.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of why, in the long-term competition of the cryptocurrency market, mainstream Layer 1 protocols such as ETH and SOL are gradually losing monetary premium to Bitcoin. By dissecting market capitalization structures, the revenue and real economic activities of L1 protocols, their relative returns compared to BTC, and differences in monetary attributes, the article points out that as ecosystem growth slows at the margin and narratives become harder to sustain, L1s are steadily losing their dominance over the "crypto monetization" narrative, while BTC's status as a monetary asset continues to solidify.

Gate's ETF leveraged tokens are emerging as a preferred instrument among crypto traders due to their user-friendly design, lack of forced liquidation, and automatic rebalancing functions. This article offers an in-depth examination of the mechanisms, features, suitable use cases, and critical risk factors associated with Gate ETF leveraged tokens, helping users utilize leverage more efficiently to amplify returns in the crypto market.